The State, It Cannot Too Often Be

Property In Land Is As Indefensible As Property In Man.

Blockading Squadrons Are A Means Whereby Nations Seek To Prevent Their Enemies From Trading; Protective Tariffs Are A Means Whereby Nations Attempt To Prevent Their Own People From Trading. What Protectionism Teaches Us, Is To Do To Ourselves In Time Of Peace What Enemies Seek To Do To Us In Time Of War.

That Amid Our Highest Civilization Men Faint And Die With Want Is Not Due To The Niggardliness Of Nature, But To The Injustice Of Man.

It Is Not The Business Of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or To Preserve The Fool From The Consequences Of His Own Folly. Government Should Be Repressive No Further Than Is Necessary To Secure Liberty By Protecting The Equal Rights Of Each From Aggression On The Part Of Others, And The Moment Governmental Prohibitions Extend Beyond This Line They Are In Danger Of Defeating The Very Ends They Are Intended To Serve.

The Word Capital, As Philologists Trace It, Comes Down To Us From A Time When Wealth Was Estimated In Cattle, And A Man's Income Depended Upon The Number Of Head He Could Keep For Their Increase.